Machine for uniting looped fabrics.



No. 758,248. PA ENTBD APR. 26, 1904.v G. 0. a; H. E. HARBA'UGHL- MAGHINE FOR UNITING LOOPBD FABRICS.

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MACHINE FOR UNIIING LOOPED FABRICS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1903.

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UN ITED STATES Patented April 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE O. HARBAUGH AND HOWARD HARBAUGH, OF KENOSHA, WIS- CONSIN, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO CHICAGO-ROCKFORD HOSIERY COMPANY, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

MACH1NE FOR umTme. LOOPED FABRICS.

SE'ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 758,248, dated April 26, 1904.

Application filed August 5, 1903 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE O. HARBAUGH and HOWARD E. HARBAUGH, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Uniting Looped Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to machines for uniting the selvage edges of looped or knit fabrics to produce therefrom underwear, hosiery, &c.

WVe accomplish our invention by devising mechanism that Wlll un1te such selvage edges by means of looser, more open, and conse quently more elasticstitches than those heretofore employed for that purpose. In fact, the elasticity of the stitches formed by this machine approximate the elasticity of the fabrics which it is proposed to unite thereby.

Our invention consists of certain new and useful features of construction and combinations of parts especially devised and designed to produce the improved uniting means hereinbefore referred to, all as hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of an'elevation of the rear portion of the machine as seen at the arrow a in Fig. 2, the front portion of the machine being broken away. Fig. tis an end view of parts of the machine shown in Fig. 3, as seen at the arrow 6 in Fig. 3, with other parts added and sectioned. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view'of parts shown in Fig. 4, with some parts thereof in different positions from those there shown. Figs. 5 to 8,

inclusive, and Figs. and 11 are top plan views with parts sectioned away through the dotted line 5 in Fig. 4, illustrating the successive operations of the needle, loop-transferrer, stitch-receiver, and some cooperating parts of the machine while forming a stitch. Figs. 6, 8-, 10, and 11 are views in eleva- Saris-1N0. 168,283. on modeld tion with parts sectioned away through the dotted line 6* in Fig. 49 of parts shown in Figs. 6, 8, 10, and 11. Fig. 9 is a top planv view of the needle, loop-transferrer, and sti tchreceiver of the machine, with some cooperating parts. Fig. 12 is a like View of the same parts, some of which are in slightly-different positions. Figs. 13 and 1A are enlarged sectional details of the loop-transferrer, stitchreceiver, and some of, the impaling-quills of the machine. Fig. 15 is a section at the dotted line 15 in Fig. 2 of parts there shown.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A A. A are a base, an arm, and a vertical post formed, preferably, in a single piece by casting.

A is the main shaft of the machine and is mounted in bearings A A Figs. 1 and 3,'in

I the partsA A.

B is a circular bearing-plate and is adjustably suspended by means of an integral stem B thereon froma socket B in the free end of the arm A, whereinto it is rigidly secured by the set-screw B O is an annular work-holder having a circular rack C, Fig. 1, formed on the under side thereof and rotatably mounted on a ledge O Fig. 15, on the bearing-plate B and provided with a series of pointed metal impalingquills O projecting radially from the periphery thereof around its entire circumference to receive and support pieces of knit fabric while being united together.

D, Fig. '15, is ashaft mounted in two iden tical bearings D (oneonly being shown) in the shaft-housing D which is rigidly secured to and depends from the under side of the bearing-plate B. v

D is a pinion mounted fast on the shaft D and meshing with the rack O on the Workholder O.

D, Fig. 1, is a ratchet-wheel mounted fast on the shaft Dand projecting upward through an opening D", Fig. 2, in the bearing-plate B.

D, Figs. 2 and 3, is an eccentric mounted fast on the shaft A D Fig. 2, is a pallet connected at one end eccentric D and fashioned at its free end to adapt it to engage the teeth D", Fig. 1, of the ratchet-wheel D and therethrough drive the same.

D is a detent mounted on a pivot-bearing D and serving to lock the ratchet-wheel D to prevent it from rotation in one direction.

vE, Figs. 1 and 4, represent stockings open at their toe ends as they came from the knitting-machine, so impaled on the quills C that the selvage edges E of the toe portions thereof are parallel, contiguous, and ready to be united by the sewing devices of the machine. F, Fig. 2, is a cast spider rigidly secured to the bearing-plate B and frictionally contacting the work-holder C to prevent its too easy rotation.

F, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is a work-guide curved to substantially coincide with the periphery of the work-holder C, rigidly secured to the machine-base A and serving both 'to maintain the work in proper position on the impalingquills G and to support the outer ends of such quills while the needle ofthe sewing mechanism of the machine is traversing the longitudinal grooves F Figs. 13 and 14, therein in passing back and forth with its thread through the pieces of fabric to unite them.

The parts hereinbefore described constitute for the most part the carriage or work-holder and its support for receiving the pieces of fabric to be united and mechanism for presenting the same to and retiring them from the sewing devices of the machine.

G, Fig. 4, is an eccentric disk mounted fast on the shaft A and providedwith an integral transverse circular flange G.

G is a shoe having a groove G therein, admitting, coinciding with, and freely traversable by the flange G of the disk G. i

H, Fig. 3, is a rigid cylindrical rod mounted fast in the arm A of the machine.

1, Fig. 4, is a needle-bar pivotally mounted at its middle portion on the-rod H and connected at its upper end 1 by means of a pivot I with the upper portion of the shoe G and provided at its lower end I with a curved sewing-needle 1", secured therein.

1, Fig. 6, is a combined guide and gage plate having a transverse thread-opening I therein and rigidly secured to the outside of the guide F. i

J, Fig. 4, is abearing-post pivotally mounted in the socket J on the base A.

J is a looper-arm pivotally mounted by one end to the bearing-post J and provided at its free end witha transverse split bearing J Fig. 4, adjustable by means of a clamp-screw J.

J 5 is a looper,preferab1y two-fingered, as

shown, provided with a supporting-wrist J adjustable and seated in the split bearing J 3 in the looper-arm J K, Fig. 4, is a compound cam-Wheel mounted fast on the shaft A, the periphery thereof being cam-shaped and its maximum eccentricity extending between the points K K thereon, the inner face thereof also having developed thereon ahorizontal flange-cam K Fig, 2, also extending between the points K K thereon.

K, Fig. 4, is a tension-spring connecting the free end of the looper-arm J 2 through the lug K thereon with 2. lug K on the needlebar I and serving to maintain the lug L, Figs.

3 and 4, on the looper-arm J in constant engagement with the periphery of the cam-wheel K and also serving tomaintain the lip L on the lug L in the path of the cam K thereon.

M, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is a loop-transferrer carriage slidably mounted on the rod H and terminating at one end in a downwardly-projecting loop-transferrer bar 1W and at the other end in a backwardly-projecting arm M M is a loop-transferrer secured into the lower end portion of the loop-transferrer bar M. The free end portion of the loop-transferrer W4 Fig. 13, has a longitudinal groove NF therein to provide a slideway and ensconcing-recess for the admission of the free end portion of the part next hereinafter to be described.

N is a stitch receiver carriage slid ably mounted on the rodH and terminating at one end in a downwardly-projecting stitch-receiver bar N and at the other end in a downwardly-projecting arm N N is a stitch-receiver secured into the lower end portion of the stitch-receiver bar N and having its free end portion adapted to slide in the longitudinal groove M in the loop-transferrer M Fig. 13.

O, Figs. 1 to 4, is a compound cam-wheel mounted fast on the shaft A", a portion of the operative periphery O thereof being camshaped and its maximum eccentricity extending between the points 0 Fig. 4, thereon, the inner face thereof also having developed thereon horizontal flange-cams O 0, Figs. 2 and 3, the former extending about halfway and the latter about one-third of the way around the circumference of such camwheel 0.

- P, Figs. 1 and 4, is a roller-stud mounted on a vertical pintle-bearing P, adjustably seated in the free end portion of' the arm M of the slidable loop-transferrer carriage M.

P, Fig. 2, is a tension-spring fast by its ends to fixed bearings P P on the parts A M and serving to maintain the roller-stud P, Fig. 4, in constant engagement with the working periphery O and the cam 0 Figs. 2, 3, and 4, or the inner face 0 of the cam-wheel O.

Q, Fig. 2, is a tension-spring fast by its ends to fixedbearings Q Q on the parts A N and serving to maintain one side of the horizontal arm Q Figs. 1, 2, and 3, rigidly secured to and projecting from the arm N in constant engagement with the cam 0, Fig. 3, or the depressed portion 0 thereof.

R R, Figs. 3 and 4, are a thread-tension and guide supported by an arm R adjustably seone end of the rod H by means of a screw R 7 R is an arm integral with the arm R hav cured to ing a horizontal member R projecting past'the part N and serving as an adjustable stop therefor.

S is a driving-pulley and S its shifting-lever. T is a thread take-up. At each rotation of the shaft A the following operations take place The eccentric D",

Figs. 2 and 3, acting through'the pallet D ratchet-wheel D shaft D, Fig. 15, pinion D and rack C, rotates the work-holder Cto the liquely forward and upward and take a loop from the needle I Figs. 9 and 11, as such needle is finishing its backward stroke, and on its next forward stroke the. needle will .pass through the loop just formed, Fig. 7. Then the looper J will pass obliquely backward and downward to the position from whence it started, Figs. 6 and 12, and be in readiness to repeat the operations just described, beginning as in Fig. 9. The tension-spring K serves to maintain the parts L L in constant engagement with the compound cam-wheel K. The flange-cams O 0*, Fig. 3, of the cam-wheel O, cooperating with the tension-springs P Q, slide the carriages M N, with their loop-transferrer M and stitclrreceiver N alternately back and forth on the rod H. The cam 0, also of the cam-wheel O, acting through the arm hi and carriage M, gives the free end of the arm M and its loop-transferrer M a pendulum-like movement in the directions indicated by the double arrow in Fig. 5. (See also Fig. 7, whore the loop-transferrer M is shown at the outer limit of its vibration in a direction opposite to that shown in Fig. Keeping in mind the functions of each of the moving parts carried by the shaft A the operation of the machine to form an open and elastic stitch, such as is contemplated by our invention, is as follows: Fig. & shows the machine in readiness for sewing. Fig. 5 shows 'a top plan view of the needle, loop-transferrer, and stitch-receiver of the machine after the main shaft A has made one complete revolution and returned all the parts operated there by to the positions shown in Fig. 4, a complete stitch having been formed by the operations just predicated, with its enlarged stitchmust be employed, and vice versa.

the needle I advanced to the free end of the impaling-quill C located-immediate] y thereunder, and with theloop-transferrer M swung over against the plate F and then passed through the loop U preparatory to receiving it from the looper J and transferring it therefrom to form a second stitch-loop like U. Fig.

7 shows the needle 1 advanced from the position shown in Fig. 6 part way through the ldop U. Fig. 8 shows the needle I advanced from theposition shown in Fig. 7 to the forward limit of its travel and the looper J 5 pressed downward and backward to its farthest limit and ready to take another loop of thread from the needle 1 Fig. 9 shows the looper just in the act of taking a loop from the needle 1 Fig. 10 shows the needle I after it has deposited a loop U on the looper'J and is just withdrawing from such loop. Fig. 10 also shows the loop-transferrer M swung fromthe positions shown in Figs. 8 and 9 (the latter being an intermediate position) over against the stitch-receiver Niwhich is just in the act of receiving a stitch-loop U 'from the loop transferrer M by sliding along the groove M*-.in the latter and passing thence through such stitch-loop U Fig. 11 shows the loop -transferrer after it has transferred the loop U to the stitch-receiver N and is just withdrawing from such loop U Fig. 5 shows the stitch-receiver N 'a second time at its inner limit of travel with a second TOO M receives a loop from the looper J transfers it to the stitch-receiver N around which it is drawn taut by the needle I and the threadtension devices of the machine. thereby forming an enlarged stitch-loop U, the size of which is obviously determined by the diameter of the stitch-receiver N If very open, loose,

and consequently very elastic stitches are required, as when the fabrics to be united are very elastic, a correspondingly large and coarse loop transferrer M and stitch-receiver N The sole function of the transferrer M is to transfer each stitch-loop from the looper J to the receiver N is always at rest while a stitchU is being formed thereon, a circumstance that insures both uniform-sized and Well-formed stitches for uniting looped, knit, or other fabrics.

What We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for uniting knit fabrics, in combination, fabric-impaling quills, a sewingneedle, a looper, a stitch-receiver, a looptransferrerfor transferring each stitch-loop from the looper to the stitchreceiverand means for supporting and operating all of said parts, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a machine for uniting knit fabrics, in combination, fabric impaling quills having longitudinal grooves in the upper sides thereof, a sewing-needle afiapted to travel back and forth in the grooves in the impalingquills, a looper, a stitch-receiver, a loop transferrerfor transferring each stitch-loop from the looper to the stitch-receiver-and means for supporting and operating all of such parts, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a machine for uniting knit fabrics, in combination, fabric-impaling quills having longitudinal grooves in the upper sides thereof, a sewing-needle adapted to travel back and forth in the grooves in the impaling-quills, a

looper, means for supporting such impalingquills sewing-needle and looper, a stitch.

receiver and a loop transferrerfor trans ferring stitch-loops from the looper to the stitch receiver carriages for supporting such stitch-receiver and loop-transferrer, and means for operating all of said parts, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

L. In a machine for uniting knit fabrics, in combination, fabric-impaling quills, a sewingneedle, a looper, means for supporting such impaling-quills sewing-needle and looper, a stitch-receiver and a looptransferrerfor transferring stitch-loops from the looper to the stitchreceivercarriages for supporting such stitch-receiver and loop-transferrer, cams for driving such carriages, and means for operating such cams and other parts of said machine, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE O. HARBAUG-H. HOWARD E. HARBAUGH.

Witnesses for George 0. Harbaugh:

H. L. EIGHELMAN, F. C. GLIDDoN.

Witnesses for Howard E. Harbaugh:

G. H. CURTIS,

S. P. BUTCHER. 

